St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-03-10
A DOCTORS BILL.
DIR. HI. A. Cutting Has Some Difficulty
i'm Making Collections.

DIR. III. A. Cutting Has Some Difficulty
i'm Making Collections.
The case of DR.. Hiram A Cutting OF
Lunenburg, VS. the widow of Simeon r..
Corey, NJ. D., of Craftsbury was heard
before j. l.. Edwards in Idle g. Stat
ford's Office Thursday and Friday, and
was rather interesting in places. The
suit was brought to recover $75 and
interest for II microscopic examination
made by DR.. Cutting of portions of the
vital organs of DR.. Corey. 1t seems
that DIR. Corey's case baffled the skill
of the doctors and that he made ar
engagements with several brother ply
The post norton wasn't satisfactory
and DIR. Cutting pursued his investiga-
tiOns further with the microscope, as
he claims by order of Mrs. Corey, as
she claims without her orders and for
his own satisfaction. The DR.. claims
that $75 only covered the actual cost !;
that ordinarily the charge would be
$3.50; that his apparatus cost $4,000
to $4,000; that he had made study
of the microscope for 35 years; that
the glasses used in mounting speci
from 81 to $I2 an ounce and that after
being used could not be cleaned ; that
the examination covered three or four
months time that it all had to be
done at MI ht with artificial light and
that altogether a months time was
consumed in the work that about the
time this was going on he was secre-
tary of the state board of agriculture,
postmaster, store keeper, experimental
farmer, state fish commissioner, state
chemical asSayer, curator of the state
museum, state geolOgist, medical prac-
titioner, occasionally pulled teeth and
did such scientific work as he could
do; that he never attended regular
course of medical lectures but had at
tended lectures in microscopy at Dart
mouth three or four weeks and had at
tended lectures three different times
two months each at Cambridge. DR..
Corey's difficulty was pronounced a
form of Bright's disease.
Mrs. Corey denied that DR.. Cutting
was engaged at all, and she was sus-
tanned by a witness who heard the
conversation and was present at post
norton. The defence put in cata-
logue showing that the glasses used in
microscopic examinations could be
bought from rs cents to $3.50 an ounce
and DR.. HI. L. Newell testified that he
had the care of the microscopic instru
ments at Burlington medical college
for a time and that the glasses were
always cleaned and seldom broken.
DR.. S. II. Brooks, president of the state
medical society, testified that he had
never heard DR.. Cuttings name before
mentioned in connection with scientific
microscopic examinations, and DR.. HI.
S. Browne testified that DR.. Cutting had
no reputation as microscopic and
further that the report which he rem
dered of DR.. COrey's organs did not
present any Indication that DR.. Corey
died of the disease named both doc
tors testified that the report had no
scientific value. DIR. @. b. Billiard
testified that he considered DR.. Cut
ting an expert with the microscope
that he had as good apparatus as was
to be found in the country; that he
had a reputation as a scientific man,
and that he didn't charge enough for
the job. When doctors disagree who
shall decide ? In this case it is the
consideration.